A medical doctor, who has just finished his National Youth Corps Service, Dr. Emmanuel Ogah has allegedly stabbed his 62 year old biological mother, Mrs. Janet Ogah to death in Ogun State of Nigeria.
Investigation by the state police command revealed that the suspect, who has just finished his NYSC programme, came back home three days earlier and had been having issues with the deceased since then.
The suspect was said to have claimed that his mother was in the habit of insulting and disgracing him in the presence of her apprentices, and that frustrated him into taking her life.
In a statement issued in Abeokuta today, Saturday the command’s Public Relations Officer, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said that Ogah was arrested following a complaint by the elder brother of the suspect, Cletus Ogah, adding that the elder brother reported at Itele Ota Divisional headquarters that his younger brother had stabbed his 62 year-old mother, one Janet Ogah, to death.
The command said that following the complaint, the DPO of the division, CSP Lukman Raheem, led detectives to the scene at No 16, Ololade street, Lafenwa, Itele Ota , where the suspect was arrested.
“In his statement, the suspect claimed that his mother was in the habit of insulting and disgracing him in the presence of her apprentices, and that frustrated him into taking her life,” it said.
According to the command, the corpse of the deceased, a food vendor, has been deposited at the Ota General Hospital morgue, for autopsy.
It said that the State Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, had ordered the immediate transfer of the suspect to homicide section of the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, for further investigation. [myad]
